Meatballs

Name: Meatballs
Cuisine: European, Italian, Mediterranean
Ingredients: 4 slices bread, 2 packed cups worth; 2 lb ground beef; 3 cloves garlic, minced; ¼ cup finely chopped flat leaf parsley; ¼ cup Pecorino Romano, grated; ¼ cup currants; ¼ cup pine nuts; 1½ tsp salt; 15 turns white pepper; 4 eggs; ½ cup dried bread crumbs; tomato sauce

5 steps

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:02:24 GMT

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Ingredients

6 servings

2 lbground beef

¼ cupflat leaf parsley

finely chopped

¼ cupPecorino Romano grated

¼ cupcurrants

¼ cuppine nuts

1 ½ tspsalt

15 turnswhite pepper

4eggs

½ cupdried bread crumbs

tomato sauce

Instructions

Step 1

Oven 325. Put the fresh bread in a bowl, cover it with water, and let it soak for a minute or so. Pour off the water, wring out the bread, then crumble and tear it into tiny pieces.

Step 2

Combine the bread with all the remaining ingredients except the tomato sauce in a lg mixing bowl in the order they are listed. Add the dried bread crumbs last to adjust for wetness.

Step 3

Shape the mixture into handball-sized meatballs and space them evenly on a baking sheet. Bake 25-30 min.

Step 4

While meatballs are baking, heat tomato sauce in a saute pan large enough to comfortably accommodate the meatballs.

Step 5

Add meatballs to sauce and simmer 30 min. Serve with a healthy portion of tomato sauce and topped with additional grated Romano.